Agreeing with murky, just because you get 2 inches of growth does not mean a successful graft. Wait for it to show obvious signs of expansion and new shoot lengthening.
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Even that is no guarantee IMO, because any minor heat wave can fry new sensitive growth very easily. We have a heat wave forecast with very high temperatures this weekend for our part of the world and I’m holding my breath. June 2 years ago I thought I had a lot of successful grafts then we had a record heat wave with temps up to 110 deg and I lost every graft, so unfortunately you can’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.
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it’s exciting to see it start! I feel foolish posting mine but can’t help it.
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So I’m getting the itch to field graft a couple of pawpaw seedlings for the first time. It pushed 80° yesterday and we have a couple of days in the 70s coming up, but cooler days and a chance of a frost are possible next week. Should I give it another week or two until the warmer temperatures are more consistent? The leaves are only just starting to emerge from the buds as well.
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Still doing a little grafting, I know it’s late in the season. This is a well rooted section of m111 root, I’ll bury the union for an own rooted Wickson tree (along with several other varieties). Hopefully it pans out well!
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I’m nowhere close to done grafting. The types of grafting i do change over in June / July. Nice job that looks great!
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Great! I’ve had this rootstock heeled in, very leafed out. Should be fine I suppose!
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Today… i put tall cages on my kieffer and imp kieffer to callery grafts. I figure the birds will land on the cage and hopefully stay off my pear growth.
Also… i can secure some of that tall growth by tie to the cage.
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Mulberry buds have popped in the past week. Grafted April 13th.
Silk Hope
Lawson Dawson
Stearns
Illinois Everbearing
Corral
Gerardi Dwarf
A visitor under the mulberries.
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About 2 months from when I started grafting my apple rootstock. This is my 3rd/4th year grafting. I was hoping by now my take percentage would be a lot higher. Most of my grafts are either W&T or I tried out the grafting tool this year. I just started introducing my trees the the outside. Out of direct sun and not too long. Any advice on what I could be doing wrong or what I could do better/differently. Thank you in advance.
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@Luongo43
That soil looks really wet, are there drainage holes in that tub?
Maybe why those two are Wilting , too wet ?
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I will add more and try and see if that helps! Thank you for that tip
Well this is a rather strange one. I grafted the top of a rescue pear with 2 scions of Flemish beauty probably close to 2 months ago. They both started to have green growth about 3 weeks or so ago. Then we hit a mini hot spell and all the growth withered and died off on both scions. I figured both were dead, but just left them in place. Fast forward a couple of weeks and we hit a real hot spell. All of a sudden one of the 2 scions that appeared to have died sprouted new green growth this weekend. I’ve never seen this with any of my grafts before. Is it common to see a graft resurrected from the grave like this?
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It is rare, but can happen. Most of the time, when growth dies back, the graft failed. I’ve seen a few instances where a latent bud eventually grew. One of the apple trees I grafted died back similar to what you describe. When I checked it a few minutes ago, a bud was trying to push through the tape at the graft. There is a good chance it will live.
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Grafted this pear for a friend, around March 8; the scion was taken from an unknown cultivar that he liked, and for the rootstock we bought a grafted tree - Butirra Precoce Morettini on BA29 quince. Since the tree was already conveniently branched, I did 6 grafts on it before planting and I left one branch of the original variety.
But something stupid happened… one of us dropped the cut branches from the original cultivar on the same table where the scions were - I only noticed it when I finished grafting. Not sure if they got mixed up but I left it as is….
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My first attempt at grafting. The majority of my grafts took. This callous formation is so satisfying to see. Any recommendations on when the grafting tape should be removed?
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Appears your tape has plenty of stretch…don’t be in a hurry to remove it.
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I usually leave it the whole season, sometimes longer, unless I see signs of digging in. But I also don’t usually use inflexible wraps.
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I did a handfull in February and couldn’t locate grafting tape…and used freezer bags or topsoil bags…so those I’ll need to look for girdling next month …or even right soon if to an existing tree instead of benchgraft to a bare root.
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